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Donald Georgeson was born say 1758 ?Bower, CAI, SCT, date assumed from marriage, & place from assumed family. There'a a gap in the family of William and Jean (DOULL) GEORGESON's family in this time period where there were no GEORGESON baptisms obvious in the established church records extant for Caithness. William and Jean moved from Kirk to Coghill. Kirk is associated with Donald's son Thomas and the first two of the known children of William and Jean were born there.2 Donald Georgeson married Janet Bruce on 28 Dec 1785 Watten, Par. of Watten, CAI, SCT, Donald in Cogill, Janet in Watten.3 Donald Georgeson died aft. 1801 ?Knapperfield, Par. of Watten, CAI, SCT.4

From naming pattern it might be assumed that Donald's parents were a William and Elspet.There's no obvous marriage in the extant OPR for Caithness (Georgeson and name variants) and amongst the baptisms the closest is a William at Kirk (Bower) who had a dtr Elspet baptized May 1756. Very tempting to say that this is Donald's father given the Kirk connection (Donald's son Thomas was at Kirk).The next Bower baptism is 1760 a William to Will GEORGESON & Jean DOULL of Kirk who then appear to move to Watten by the time daughters Jannet (1762) and Margaret (1764) come along. An Alexander GEORGESON of Knapperfield features as a witness to some of Donald and Janet (BRUCE)'s children.This Alexander has to be the Alexander at Knapperfield who married Isabella DOULL in 1801 and is highly likely to be the son of William and Jean (DOULL) GEORGESON, born at Cogill (Watten) in 1774, and would therefore be Donald's brother. The above is why Donald is assumed to belong to William and Jean (DOULL) GEORGESON.1

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